Most Americans support COVID-19 vaccine mandates for crowded events, air travel, health care professionals, and workers who interact with the public, according to a new poll.
While worries about the COVID-19 virus have grown as cases of the Delta variant rise throughout the country, precautionary measures including mask wearing and social distancing have not returned to the levels seen before vaccines were widely available.
Confidence in the vaccines to withstand the variants has not waned, either, according to the poll from the Associated Press and the National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago.
Grain farmer Cole Siegle didn’t have time to waste when a combine his family was using to help with the harvest started acting up.
An onboard computer glitch was the problem — a quick fix with the right equipment.
Instead, the Alberta farmer had to wait for a dealership technician to drive out to diagnose and reset the system. It was a five-minute job that idled the combine for two hours.
It was “extremely” frustrating, he said of the incident from two years ago. In those couple hours, he said the combine might have harvested the equivalent of roughly $20,000 worth of canola.
It’s situations like this behind wrangling over whether “right-to-repair” laws are needed to ensure farmers can fix their own machinery, or whether they open the door to legalizing the kind of modifications the industry says would have implications for safety and privacy.
“I’m not going to rewrite the software,” Siegle said.
“I just want to be able to read these codes … and then [be]…
Tell us about the upcoming Dobbs Supreme Court case.
This is the first time in almost thirty years that the U.S. Supreme Court have evidenced any interest in permitting states to limit abortion prior to viability, commonly understood to occur at or near 24 weeks of pregnancy, when the child can live outside the mother’s womb. The Mississippi law before the Court only prohibits abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy, which is less than 0.7 percent of all abortions occurring in Mississippi and less than 5 percent of all abortions in the US. A win in this case is essential to building a culture of life, in which the lives of unborn children, and all human beings, are respected and protected.
Which is the most important amicus brief being submitted to the Court for this case and why is it the one you led?
Our amicus brief for 240 Women Scholars and Professionals, and Prolife Feminist Organizations, is crucial to persuading the Court that, contrary to the Casey Court’s claim that “[t]he ability of women to participate equally in the economic and social life of the Nation has been facilitated by the availability of abortion,” women’s advancements in education, employment, and economic well-being are independent of abortion.
If conservatives crave freedom and order with a nod to traditional moral norms, liberals crave justice and equality with a nod to future progress and societal evolution. But whenever either side wins an election victory and their party gains power, the promises that motivated their vote fail to materialize.
Beyond lip service and using those promises as a blanket to cover other things, the politicos dance to the tune played by the uber rich ruling class. We can see now how the Democrats in claiming to be champions of things like justice, equality, and societal progress are mostly just delivering more government control and more crony kickbacks to their corporate masters. When in 2016 the shoe was on the other foot, Republicans delivered more government control and crony kickbacks to their corporate masters while soundbiting all about freedom and order and preserving our traditiona and values.
What we call “upadarianism” is no synthesis of conservative and liberal ideologies as such, but it does seek to address and advance many of the aspirational desires and valid concerns associated with these two main camps. On one hand conservatives may deny the lack of justice and equality some demographics suffer in this country. On the other hand liberals tend to be all too willing to sacrifice freedom for all in order to rectify the injustice suffered by some. Conservatives sometimes recoil at the ideas of progress and societal evolution and see change itself as bad while liberals seem to regard everything from the past as inherently suspect and even execrable in a really irrational manner.
The upadarian ideology, if we have to even use the word “ideology”, is really an ideational framework of ideals, principles, and practices which lead to good governance and a positive and forward-looking lifestyle. It is not rooted in or confined by the ideological straitjackets of left or right. The goal is to apply both God’s standards of righteousness in the form of freewill participation between people who consent thereto and God’s standards of justice to ensure a pluralistic, free, equitable, and prosperous society that nurtures every person without favor or prejudice.
If we desire anything for civilization it is to ensure a free and pluralistic society of equals who enjoy freedom and who may all prosper in peace and happiness through their own individual choices in terms of their own actions and the forms of freewill participation they desire to engage in.
What marks upadarianism as unique in many regards is that most of its “program” is entirely voluntary and can be carried out through freewill participatory associations of some kind and yet government, which includes the magisterial authority, is not necessarily seen as a “necessary evil” but a potential positive good. We challenge and deny the notion the 17th century concept of nation-state defines what the magisterial authority could be, but we see the magisterial authority as essentially good and beneficial when it is governed by the right ideals.
Upadarianism is based on a Judeo-Christian understanding and balanced, holistic application of the four core ideals of what we consider the next advancement in the form of a new civilization. These ideals include Unity in diversity, Popular sovereignty, Democratic equality, and Rule of law. They form the initials UPDR, hence “UPaDaRianism.”
Without getting too deep in their meaning, these ideals resonate with the inner harmony of a civilizational framework that nurtures and values every person and encourages the development and exercise of their spiritual sovereignty as individuals so that each can find and follow God’s best for their lives without artificial limits.
Unlike “ideologies”, upadarianism, sometimes spelled UPDRism, has its starting point and primary focus on individuals and freewill participatory associations of free people pursuing and actualizing its ideals, principles, and practices unilaterally and voluntarily. Upadarianism isn’t about shaping the broader society to suit our beliefs, values, and convictions. It is about shaping a legal and civil ecosystem that simply allows people who desire to use this lifestyle and governance self-disciplinary philosophy and way of life to its maximum effect without undue external interference or artificial limits.
The inner harmony between left and right appears as we get to the root of the rank and file person’s true motivations and realize both want things that are actually positive overall for society. Where these desires become a trap and an excuse to enhance the ruling class at everyone else’s expense is when they become slogans without meaning and justification for vilification and for making government more powerful at the expense of both freedom and justice.
The common thread of corruption of the more pure and noble ideas of left and right is that they depend on electoral victories and a return to power of the other party, the one not in power but who will allegedly save them from the party on power. Even for those who tactically vote against a party to forestall the agenda of the party in power, there is a sense emerging among a very few that this isn’t really forestalling the limitations on freedom nor advancing justice and equity.
Few liberals or conservatives are willing to find common ground on the basis of freedom with mutual respect for human dignity, human rights, and human flourishing as something all sides can uphold. The divide between them is perpetuated and advanced substantially through partisanship to an absurd degree wherein whatever gives electoral advantages to their party is good and anything that might hurt their chances is bad. The good of the party becomes synonymous in a subtle but insidious way with their alleged ideals and aspirations.
While we tend to think Republicans generally support less overt ways to deny or limit freedom, and we beleive freedom is essential to everything else, we also tend to think Democrats at least give some lip service to issues of injustice and inequity and are more open to societal advances that should not necessarily be limited by tradition when those traditions are no relevant or useful.
The problem regarding Democrats today is that they have become the party of imposition and intolerance toward others. Having captured most institutions in this land, they flex their power and, like bad Calvanists, assume the universe favors them simply because they have the power and wealth their opponents lack. Far beyond simply wanting justice and equity, Democrats are moving into some sort of authoritarian-imposed “new humanity” that tears up all tradition and burns down old institutions such as faith and family out of a preternatural aversion to everything from the past.
Many liberals who simply want justice and equality for all persons have been seduced into believing that the path toward authoritarianism and imposing new norms that burn down all the ancient institutions and values is the only path to progress. Arrogance, hubris, hatred, and increasing violence are the new norms on the left, their ideas about justice and equity having become a disingenuous pretext for raw ambitions aimed at monopoly power forever.
We can and do cite the violent and irrational anger on the right, so notoriously on display when the Capitol was stormed by a mob seeking literary to overthrow the government, but this has yet to become a systematic as the violence from the left. Moreover, while most on the right tend to condemn violence and while every institution seeks to shun and shame rightwing violence, this isn’t true for the left. The violence of the left is nurtured by top Democrats and every institution in this land supports it, or at least justifies it, openly.
All this leads people who desire freedom, who may not fit the mold of a conservative, thinking any vote against a Democrat is a good thing because, today, Democrats have become totalitarian, anti-freedom, and violent in their approach to re-creating society as an alt-gendered, atomized, and undifferentiated mass of cogs in their Party machine.
Republicans have betrayed their claims to be for freedom and they continue to treat the poor and disadvantaged as if societal and structural bias is not at all to blame.
Anyone who both loves freedom and desires justice will find Democrats violently opposed to freedom in its real activation but giving lip service to justice and Republicans betraying freedom and most vehemently, if not yet violently in the main, opposed to justice and equity as they blame the victims for their plight.
We do not ask government to implement our program of peaceful and non-violent, unilateral “revolution within”, by which we desire to build among ourselves a sociocultural and socioeconomic alternative structure that allows us to live free and experience equitable justice without favor or prejudice.
We are not relying on “government” and party victories to implement our program, it is something average people must be able to freely pursue and to inhibit this pursuit is itself a tort against society itself, a crime against humanity.
We are not finding things people want or that are trending and then using this to capture and audience. Honestly, that has its place in marketing and persuasion. But it has no place in this effort. We are focusing on a sacred blueprint for human civilization which one may follow through freewill participation and which cannot be imposed by humans over other humans.
Our agenda is NOT to reshape this society according to our best understanding of God’s sacred blueprints but, rather, to be free to explore and actualize those blueprints unilaterally and on a purely freewill basis.
For instance, rather than imposing our will or trying to get other national peoples to be like us, we are working to unilaterally build the genesis structures of a new civilization and its vanguard people, the Upadarian spiritual nation, without seeking to change anything or anyone that doesn’t desire to participate in our freedom-building, nation-building, and civilization-building efforts. Quite simply, to SHOW the world what a nation whose God is the Lord looks like and how its participants act toward one another and the world at large, we are unilaterally creating that new nation on a spiritual as opposed to a political basis.
Likewise, our agenda and program doesn’t follow trends or fads or even things people feel they need or want. Our focus is on discovering and then actualizing a sacred and eternal blueprint which we have a right to implement among ourselves and which no human being or earthly authority has any jurisdiction over.
If we love one another and do not lie, steal, murder, or commit adultery, for instance, there is not law against us in God’s eyes. And if it be not unlawful before God it cannot justly be proscribed by human beings without our informed consent and through freewill participation alone.
For too many on the right and left this isn’t good enough. Not only must they be able to live out and express their beliefs, values, and convictions but the rest of society must bow to these things and participate wholeheartedly to affirm their fragile egos and uplift their choices as if those choices are the only right or just choices one can make. Everything is so “connected”, or “intersectional”, as they say, that your own choices and your own free associations with others must also conform to the “orthodoxy” of the hour or somehow it hurts everyone else who doesn’t like your choices.
(There IS a certain intersectionality often overlooked, a sort of multidimensional and multifaceted matrix of causality and effect that does make many aspects of life at every level interdependent of everything else. But these meshed and highly centralized ecosystems are not necessarily natural and much of the interdependence is forced and contrived. The inherent shared right of private bodies of peopme to unilaterally create autonomous sociocultural and socioeconomic ecosystems that are connected to a broader pluralistic framework should never be questioned by any advanced civilization and yet this is precisely what many who abuse the term “intersectional” are guilty of.)
The answer is unilateral actions by free people as individuals and as freewill participatory associations of people who work toward a common goal. The tendency to wait for the next election in the cause of either freedom or justice only gives more power to politicians who harness those good intentions for their own self-aggrandizement, all while limiting freedom and perpetrating more injustice. Political or civic activism is not off the table, but it cannot remain or become the primary thing, it must be directed mostly at protecting our rights to unilaterally pursue our freedom and justice program through freewill participation and by winning support in a purely consensual manner.
If your vision for society requires more than protecting your rights to pursue this vision through freewill participation alone then your core ideology is actually totalitarian in its spirit. If others must be made to conform and participate in your norms, in their private life and associations, then your ideas are perfectly and utterly useless to humanity.
The war to win freedom so we can pursue things like justice and equity to unilaterally build our own civilizational ecosystem among ourselves that is positive and beneficial to all and that doesn’t require any forced participation, will take many forms and require a multiplicity of tactics in many arenas at many levels. There is no magic elixir to cure us of the ills of an authoritarianism that is infecting every institution in this land.
PGC – After the courts allowed the Sandy Hook lawsuit to go forward that seeks to hold manufacturers of guns accountable for the violence individuals choose to commit using these same gauns, the lawsuits against gun manufacturers have only increased. Recently, the Mexican government joined in the lawsuit party and now our own law officers are using the same tactic to target gun manufacturers for bankrupty through litigation.
If you can’t kill the 2A legally, kill it economically by making the legal cost of operation beyond feasible, with exemptions written for the manufacturing of guns for police and military, no doubt.
To see Los Angeles County deputies sue a company that doesn’t even make guns but rather makes ghost gun kits that let others make their own guns is to telegraph to the world just how afraid law enforcement is of the 2nd amendment. These two deputies are suing a ghost gun machine maker because one of their machines made a ghost gun that was used in an ambush in which both these cops were shot at. This is lawfare, the use of law to commit political acts of violence against the American people.
Two Los Angeles County deputies who were ambushed in their patrol car last September have filed a lawsuit against a company that makes “ghost gun” kits. The lawsuit accuses Nevada-based Polymer80 Inc. of negligently and unlawfully selling an “untraceable home-assembled gun kit” that was used in the attack.
Claudia Apolinar and Emmanuel “Manny” Perez-Perez were sitting in their marked patrol car when Deonte Murray walked up to the car and opened fire on the two officers.
Murray was arrested three days later and tossed a PF940c handgun from his vehicle during a police chase. Murray was not allowed to own a firearm due to numerous felony convictions. The gun did not have a serial number, but ballistics confirmed it was used in the attack on Apolinar and Perez-Perez.
The homemade gun kits are not considered firearms by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, and sellers are not required to conduct a background on buyers.
The lawsuit alleges that Polymer80 sold “ghost gun kits without serial numbers and without taking reasonable steps to ensure that purchasers are legally allowed to purchase or possess firearms, despite knowing that their deadly products are especially attractive to criminals and would likely and foreseeably end up in the hands of dangerous persons prohibited from legally owning firearms under federal and state law.”
In a win not just for Christian doctors, but all doctors who have reasons for not wanting to perform abortions or transgendered surgery, a Federal Judge shot down the Biden XO mandating doctors have to conduct these types of surgeries regardless of ethical or religious conviction.
On Monday, a federal judge handed religious liberty advocates a major win by ruling that the Biden administration cannot force Christian doctors and religious hospitals to perform abortions or gender transition procedures under Obamacare.
The case involves a portion (Section 1557) of the Affordable Care Act that prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex. The Obama administration interpreted Section 1557 as also prohibiting discrimination based on sexual…
PGC – Two Oklahoma Volleyball Coaches are claiming in a court of law that they have a constitutional right to censure college students in their athletic program for having certain political views that fall outside the orthodoxy of the acceptable.
Two American people who grew up in this land, lived off its fat, prospered from its power and security, have somehow come to conclude in that experience a right by one adult to tell another adult what political views they are permited to have to be a member of their society, AND that person also happens to be a public funded person, a near-government-paid employee of sorts, maybe even a full-fledged government employee.
That speaks volumes about the state of American liberty as a lived ideal that a major public American institution, the University of Oklahoma, has two American citizens on its collection of coaches that view the American constitution as something beneath them in the name of stopping whatever evil they imagine they’re stopping.
The two coaches in question allegedly benched a college student athlete for having the wrong political views, and, rather than denying the claim, doubled down in court documents that claim they have a right to treat a college student athlete in this way.
The student athlete is Kylee McLaughlin. Her lawsuit targets coaches Lindsey and Kyle Walton, as welll as the University’s Board of Regents.
Two women’s volleyball coaches at the University of Oklahoma argue in a legal motion that they have the right to discipline players for their political beliefs.
Player Kylee McLaughlin sued coaches Lindsey and Kyle Walton along with the OU Board of Regents earlier this year, alleging “she had been excluded from the team […] over her politically conservative views.”
The OU Daily reported that McLaughlin, the OU team captain and first team All-Big 12 selection in 2018 and 2019, had made comments that “at least one” of her teammates considered “racist” following a team viewing of the Netflix documentary “13th.”
The “infrastructure bill” is part of a long line of intolerable acts aimed at voiding the Bill of Rights and transferring wealth from workers and producers to the ruling class who produce nothing of value for society at large.
Bill Collier- For lovers of liberty and American patriots who don’t absolutely hate their own country, like the ruling class do, the “infrastructure bill” is the latest in a string of intolerable acts which appear to evince a design of tyranny. From wasteful spending to requiring a breathalyzer or other “alcohol monitoring” and even cameras in new cars to a per mile user fee that turns all roads into toll roads, this intolerable act is yet another example of top-down control and wealth redistribution from the workers and producers to the uber rich ruling class and their core of voters.
Cryptocurrency miners and blockchain software developers dodged the bullet of being required to act as brokers with privacy-busting reporting requirements to our lecherous IRS, those “swarms of officers” whose locust-like parasitism on our wealth is notorious and getting sinister. But the number of devilish details meant to fund the ruling class, further transform average people into serfs, and buy off a zombie army of mindless drone voters, in this bill, supported by the GOP and the Democrats, may be too numerous for anyone to add up. At over 2700 pages, this bill is a mass compilation of bad ideas that make the ruling class richer and you less free. It is an affront to the Bill of Rights, common decency, and the free market all designed to create the groundwork for a one-party authoritarian regime.
Finding ways to get over and around its onerous provisions will be a virtual cottage industry and any alleged good it fulfills will be greatly outweighed by its baneful impact on your liberty and wealth, unless you are part of the ruling class or a target of their vote-buying largesse.
Back when being an American meant something more than just living in this country, back when it meant a passion for freedom and a strong and courageous determination to stand for liberty and vanquish freedom takers, bills like this would be responded to quite differently. The officials behind these bills would become pariahs and new elections would sweep them all out of power.
The tyranny is real and the intent to defraud the public and transform this country into a one-party authoritarian regime is also obvious. But the outrage is a murmur, a pale whisper, and nobody appears to back justice against the freedom-taking ruling class and their collaborators in Congress. Neither local governments nor states and certainly not the faux opposition party, the Republicans, stand with average Americans who just want to be left alone to live their lives in peace.
Those who desire freedom have a high mountain to climb and the odds are stacked against their efforts to push through and obtain freedom, prosperity, peace, and safety. But the battle to pursue freedom and defeat the freedom taking ruling class is incumbent upon us all, whether we desire it or not, because we, the average people, are the target. What is more, as these intolerable acts pile up, and given the totalitarian bent of the Party in power this is just the start of their war on freedom, you will have no way to avoid the baneful effects of their efforts.
The infrastructure bill is another intolerable act that is, as all such acts, aimed at the heart of freedom and designed to further plunder your wealth.
PGC – As I have said in other articles covering CRT, there are aspects to CRT I myself am aligned with, but, at its core, CRT has a built-in assumption that ‘whiteness’ is a genetic culturality that is creating the evils of the world. No matter how you slice it, no matter the historical ‘evidence’ you might use to condemn a whole group of humans for merely being a certain genetic ethnicity, what you are proposing is flat out against egainst law and our existing constitution.
Watching public school teachers who choose to comply with the worst parts of CRT, the parts that condemn whole races of people for being born alone, has been disheartening to myself and probably many others, but some choose to stand up, some choose to resist, and, apparently, this woman, Stacey Deemer is one of those teachers.
The teacher is suing the Illinion School District claiming that teaching children that human beings who are born of a certain race are inherently racist is against the school district’s own equity policies, let alone against state and federal laws as well, in addition to being unconstitutional.
An Illinois teacher’s lawsuit claims her school district’s “equity” policies violate federal civil rights laws and the U.S. Constitution.
According to a Heritage Foundation report, the Southeastern Legal Foundation’s suit on behalf of teacher Stacy Deemar claims Evanston/Skokie School District 65 taught that “to be less white is to be less racially oppressive.”
It also taught that “white identity is inherently racist” and that “teachers who disagree with these principles are ‘racists.’
PGC – On its face, Apple’s decision to scrub the phones owned by other people looking for inappropriate photos beneath the age of consent might seem like a great idea, but is there risk to giving a company such a power as this? What innocents might be caught up in bad AI interpretations that later become owned by the human judges for fear of undermining the system.
But Apple isn’t just scanning for the sexually disgusting, but also evidence of child abuse, an area even more grey and uncertain than what constitutes illicit and something else when it comes to pictures of children.
Expect to read soon of real humans, innocent humans, caught in this centrally-controlled web by an AI bad take.
Now, imagine the value to almost anyone who could afford it of the database that could tell you the names of the people attached to scans that maybe didn’t cross a legal line but might expose them to something else. Imagine if these poeple were influencers, be they thought leaders, politicians, religious leaders, etc.
Apple does deals with China, they’re clearly not against states that murder their citizens for simply disagreeing with them, so how much do you trust them with such a database as they will inevitably create?
Apple unveiled plans to scan U.S. iPhones for images of child sexual abuse, drawing applause from child protection groups but raising concern among some security researchers that the system could be misused, including by governments looking to surveil their citizens.
The tool designed to detected known images of child sexual…
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